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CHNET-Works! is a networking venue dedicated to linking researchers, decision-makers and practitioners in population health and stakeholder sectors from across Canada and hosted by the Population Health Improvement Research Network at the University of Ottawa. Partnership involves provincial, territorial and national organizations with a focus in two streams: continuing education and mobilizing the network to action. Click here to read more information about CHNET-Works! and access the blog, newsletter and Fireside CHATS.

Interested in building your knowledge and skills in program evaluation? Check out the Canadian Institutues of Health Research's online module!

This online module has been developed to support practitioners, managers and researchers in the evaluation of health and health research initiatives (including knowledge translation). A key aim of this module is to develop capacity to conduct evaluation to support evidence-informed action.
The module has five sections:

• Section 1: Evaluation: A Brief Overview
• Section 2: Getting Started (preliminary work)
• Section 3: Designing an Evaluation (developing an evaluation plan)
• Section 4: Special Issues in Evaluation (ethical, conceptual and logistical issues)
• Section 5: Resources (glossary, checklist and evaluation templates)
  

A number of resources are available in this online module, including:

• Evaluation Checklist: questions to consider when developing and assessing an evaluation plan
• Evaluation Planning Matrix (Appendix A)
• Sample Evaluation Planning Matrix (Appendix B): a completed matrix for reference
  

For more info, check out: Evaluation module: CIHR resource

CNA Webinar Series: Progress in Practice

This exciting series has been created with our associate and affiliate members and emerging groups — and it’s free!
CNA webinars are also available in French. Register today!

Mental Health Webinar Series

The Social Aetiology of Mental Illness training program presents several upcoming webinars.

Quantitative Research Designs 101: Addressing Practice-Based Issues in Public Health

As public health professionals, you face many different kinds of practice-based questions about how best to promote health, prevent illness, or treat health problems in your communities. You need the best information to help you decide what to do. Knowing about research designs can help you search for the right type of evidence to answer a question from your own practice, and to assess the quality of the research evidence you find.

Who is this module for?

Quantitative Research Designs 101 is a free, interactive and self-paced module designed for public health practitioners, program managers/directors and staff responsible for the planning and delivery of public health programs and services.

What will you learn?

Quantitative Research Designs 101 walks you through the quantitative research designs commonly used to address practice-based questions, and discusses the strengths and limitations of each design.

• Learn how to distinguish between effectiveness (e.g., does a treatment or prevention intervention work?) and causation (e.g., what is the relationship between a risk factor and a health outcome?) questions
• Learn the most common research designs to answer practice-based questions
• Learn which study designs are most appropriate for your question

Get the knowledge you need to answer your practice-based questions.

Find this resource on our website: http://www.nccmt.ca/modules/index-eng.html

Developing Leadership Skills for a Community of Practice

Module 1:  Introduction to Modules and Key Concepts

Download:           Module 1 PDF                                Module 1 Introduction Powerpoint           Module 1 Audio

Module 2:  Forming a CoP

Download:           Module 2 Resources PDF             Module 2 Slides Powerpoint                    Module 2 Audio

Module 3:  Learning to Work Together

Download:           Module 3 Document PDF                  Module 3 Resources PDF                    Module 3 Powerpoint           Module 3 Audio

Module 4:  Developing a Shared Body of Knowledge

Download:           Module 4 PDF                                Module 4 Powerpoint                              Module 4 Audio

Module 5:  Towards Sustainability

Download:           Module 5 PDF                                Module 5 Powerpoint                              Module 5 Audio

Obtaining CNA Certification

For further information see certification

Skills Enhancement For Public Health (Skills Online)

CHNC has an established partnership with the Skills Online Program. This is a national program which reaches community health professionals across Canada and provides state-of-the-art educational tools. The mission of the program is "To provide public health professionals with epidemiological and related skills to conduct evidence-based decision-making and planning at the local level." A variety of activities are offered through the program. CHNC and its members have benefited in numerous ways from this partnership, including early opportunities to access the program, reviewing the modules and providing expert feedback, and becoming program facilitators.

What is Skills Online?

• Internet-based continuing education program
• A series of modules offered in both English and French
• Target audience: Public health professionals
• Increase knowledge, skills and abilities to support public health core competencies
• Lead by Public Health Agency of Canada

Modules currently available:

Orientation Modules:

• Introduction to online learning
• Facilitator training

Content Modules

• Basic Epidemiological Concepts
• Measurement of Health Status
• Descriptive Epidemiologic Methods
• Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases
• Outbreak investigation and management
• Introduction to Public Health Surveillance
• Applied Epidemiology: Injuries

For further information click here (external link)

Core Competencies for Public Health

Core competencies are a set of essential skills and abilities necessary for the broad practice of public health:

• Basic building blocks to develop the public health workforce
• Transcend discipline specific boundaries of individual disciplines
• Independent of program/topic
• Potential to further depth and role of public health

The Canadian Public Health Core Competencies are grouped under 7 domains:

1. Core public health sciences
2. Assessment and analysis
3. Policy development and program planning
4. Partnership , collaboration and advocacy
5. Communication
6. Socio-cultural
7. Leadership

More detailed explanations, elearning modules, and an interactive section to help integrate core compenticies in their practice available at http://www.corecompetencies.ca.